Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have signed on Preston Whitmore to write and direct Zoom, a music-themed film that teams 8 Mile producer Brian Grazer with musician and music producer Pharrell Williams, according to Variety.

Grazer and Williams will produce. Williams will compose the score and soundtrack.

Zoom is the story of a troubled West Virginia youth who attends a music academy and finds his voice and a place in the world.

No production date has been set.